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Maria Balgova

@balgovamaria.bsky.social
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Labour economist studying geography of jobs, matching, and pay. Researcher at Bank of England, Oxford PhD, IZA Fellow, made in 🇸🇰. sites.google.com/view/mariabalgova

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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Why don't firms publish pay in their job adverts? We present the first experimental evidence on how (not) posting wages changes the applicant pool, and whether that gives firms a reason to hide wage info. Great short thread by my co-author Lukas + link to the full paper👇
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I didn’t find any of the explanations for what’s going on with the bad job market for new college grads satisfying, so I spent a week trying to figure out what was up and what it means for the larger economy. Turns out it’s not AI! Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What the Tough Job Market for New College Grads Says About the Economy
A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.
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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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Bitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I haven't fully absorbed this whole situation, but I think it brings forward somethings we know about economics: a) very strong prestige basis, b) our obsession with new automation for data wrangling and production, c) basis for novelty, d) some people's lack of respect for empirical work
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Jonas Jessen @jonasjessen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Devastating news that @iza.org is effectively closing down 😔 It was (or at the moment, is) a wonderful institute and the network was tremendously helpful in dissaminating work in labour economics. IZA will sorely be missed 😢 So sorry for all IZA employees!
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 24/02/2025
New article by me! It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes. But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵
A line graph compares two measures of fertility rates in Sweden over time: the total fertility rate and the completed cohort fertility rate.

The total fertility rate is depicted using a red line, which shows a downward trend starting around the early 1900s, with fluctuations and a gradual decline to about 1.5 in 2022. 

The completed cohort fertility rate is illustrated with a blue line, with the time axis showing the women's birth year. It shows an initial decline followed by a stable fertility rate.

A note at the bottom states that the completed cohort fertility rate has been shifted by 30 years to align with the respective birth years of women. The data source is the Human Fertility Database (2024) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.
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Carl Gergs @cgergs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#econjmp How do less affluent students respond to student finance induced increases in cost? 🎓Move to full loan policy: ⬇️ enrolment rates of eligible pupils ⚙️Effect driven by ⬆️ costs but also heightened concerns with debt 💰 ⚠️Overall: ⬇️teacher supply + narrowed access to university #econjobmarket
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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
A few months ago, I've joined @bankofengland.bsky.social as a Researcher, and I couldn't be happier. If you're on the market - or just curious about working as a researcher in a central bank - join the Q&A session about the PhD Research Programme on October 23: www.eventsforce.net/bankofenglan...
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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Very excited this great JMP by my colleague @czimpelmann.bsky.social is finally out! We've always *known* gender norms matter for female labour supply, but now we have actual *evidence* at the individual level! Come for the new stylised facts, stay for deep policy implications 👇
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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!) How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market? Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba... and a thread below:
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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Thank you @maxnathan.bsky.social for this great thread about my job market paper!
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Maria Balgova @balgovamaria.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Not what I hoped my first post to be, but: @simonjaeger.bsky.social has been an excellent boss, colleague and mentor, and it's devastating that his vision for IZA will not get a chance to materialise. He achieved a lot in his short time at IZA, and I'm really grateful I got to be a part of it.
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